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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 71-79出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1948550619896491
关键词
conspiracy mentality; nonnormative protest; political action; political engagement
Belief in conspiracies tends to decrease intentions to participate in normative, legal forms of political engagement but increase intentions to employ nonnormative, illegal means of political articulation. This suggests that political extremism and violence may be a logical conclusion for individuals who see the world as governed by secret plots.
It is a hitherto open and debated question whether the belief in conspiracies increases or attenuates the willingness to engage in political action. In the present article, we tested the notion, whether (a) the relation between belief in conspiracies and general political engagement is curvilinear (inverted U-shaped) and (b) there may be opposing relations to normative versus nonnormative forms of political engagement. Two preregistered experiments (N = 194, N = 402) support both propositions and show that the hypothetical adoption of a worldview that sees the world as governed by secret plots attenuates reported intentions to participate in normative, legal forms of political participation but increases reported intentions to employ nonnormative, illegal means of political articulation. These results provide first evidence for the notion that political extremism and violence might seem an almost logical conclusion when seeing the world as governed by conspiracies.
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